First of all, there
are no such cities as "East Jerusalem" and "West Jerusalem".
Jerusalem is one city. The only time in history that it was divided is when
Jordan illegally conquered it in 1948 and kept it for 19 years until the
Israelis took it back in 1967. During the time that Jordan occupied it, the
Jordanians drove out all the Jews and destroyed the Jewish religious sites. As a
result, most of the Arabs in Jerusalem live in the eastern part of Jerusalem,
but it should not be called "East Jerusalem".

Second, the
article belittles the danger of Hamas's rocket aggression against Israel
when the author says: "The rockets are largely ineffective and many have
been intercepted by Israeli Iron Dome defense missiles." You wouldn't
say that if hundreds of rockets were being lobbed against Salt Lake City. Hamas
has been pursuing an aggressive, genocidal war against the Jews, just as its
Charter says. If the Hamas rockets have not landed on a densely populated
Israeli center it is only a matter of luck.

I found this to be a surprisingly balanced article. Israel has brutally
oppressed the Palestinians for generations.Israel was established by the ethnic
cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, forced from their homes with
no compensation. Since then, Israel has built thousands of settlements that the
world condemns as illegal. Genocide continues to this day, with the slaughter
of innocent men, women and children in the Gaza Strip.The fact that
Palestinians are fighting for self-determination, a concept the U.S. supports
except when it involves the Palestinians, should be encouraged. Israel is not
interested in peace on any terms except the total annihilation of Palestine, its
people and culture.

Might I suggest to anyone that cares to watch first hand how Israeli agent false
flag provocateurs infiltrate Palestinian areas to provoke and justify violence,
watch "5 Broken Cameras". Note the False Flag part isn't even the
point of the movie, its just an aside one hears when a group of
"peaceful" Palestinian demonstrators are running to safety with the
camera rolling and one of them points out that the people who started the rock
throwing - which justified the guns - were Israeli's dressed as
Palestinians. False Flags seem to be an Israel speciality. Look up USS Liberty
too.